What are the responsibilities and job description for the Insight Manager position at Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited?
Job Description
At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save, and invest for their futures. Through the expertise, insight, and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world. We are structured around three businesses – Investments, Adviser, and Personal – focused on the changing needs of our clients, and by diversifying the group, we are positioning ourselves for growth in a changing investment landscape.
About the Department
The Insight team plays a vital role in driving data-driven decision-making across abrdn. Through collaboration with cross-functional teams and by providing actionable insights, the department supports the business growth and enhances strategic initiatives. The team ensures that data governance, accuracy, and quality are at the core of every decision-making process, helping to maximise the impact of our data.
About the Role
The Insight Manager is a strategic leader responsible for overseeing the overall insight function, managing a team of analysts and scientists, and driving the implementation of insight strategies. The role involves defining and executing the business intelligence strategy, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring high-quality data governance and deliverables that align with the company's goals.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and implement the business intelligence strategy in alignment with the platform's goals and objectives.
Lead a team of Insight Analysts and Scientists, providing guidance, coaching, and support to ensure high-quality deliverables.
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business requirements and translate them into data-driven solutions.
Define and implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and compliance.
Oversee the design and development of dashboards, reports, and visualisations to communicate key insights and performance metrics.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
Extensive experience in business intelligence, data analysis, and reporting.
Proven leadership and people management skills.
Strong knowledge of data manipulation and visualisation tools such as SQL, Python or Power BI.
Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
Strong communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate complex data insights to stakeholders at all levels.
Ability to prioritise tasks, manage multiple projects.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
